Using the right femoral artery, clinicians implanted an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), and were able to place a workhorse wire in the distal lumen of the LAD, thus restoring blood flow into the ...

The presence of significant stenoses (asterisk) in the proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD) and intermediate branch (IM) could be confirmed by conventional angiography.

Source Reference: Muller O, et al "Long-term follow-up after fractional flow reserve–guided treatment strategy in patients with an isolated proximal left anterior descending coronary artery ...

Aug. 22, 2002 — Minimally invasive bypass surgery was better than stenting for a high-grade proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery stenosis, according to the results of a ...

Engelen, DJ, Gorgels, AP, Cheriex, EC, et al. Value of the electrocardiogram in localizing the occlusion site in the left anterior descending coronary artery in acute anterior myocardial ...

The left anterior descending artery is usually the largest coronary artery, feeding over half of the heart with blood. The LAD runs on the left side of the heart before traveling down its front ...

Fractional flow reserve (FFR) can accurately identify those patients with equivocal lesions in the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery who may not need revascularization and will see ...

They used an inflatable pneumatic cuff occluder positioned around the artery to create 30%, 50% and 70% narrowing of the proximal LAD artery. Power-Doppler volumes overlaid on anatomical B-mode ...

Intravascular ultrasonography of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery showed that the neck of the aneurysm was 10 mm in length. The lesions in the circumflex artery and the ...

Cardiac MRI demonstrated that the proximal two-thirds of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery had an intramural course, and confirmed the presence of mild, LV septal hypertrophy, with normal ...